Epostle Launches World’s First Virtual Sunday School

The first-ever virtual Sunday School launched on October 13 at the St. James Armenian Church, Los Angeles. At the invitation of Fr. Haroutioun Tachejian, the Parish Priest at St. James, Epostle fitted one of the Sunday School classrooms to serve as the electronic hub of this pilot program for the Diocese and, eventually, the rest of the world.

With this installation, the teachings of the ancient Armenian Church can and will be accessed by Sunday School students anywhere on the planet.

Anyone with a phone, tablet, computer or VR headset can access the world created at Epostle.net (https://epostle.net/) . Gregory Beylerian, Creative Director at Epostle, has been working diligently with leading programmers and developers in the industry to put together the spaces. Epostle entered the metaverse in 2023 with the Cathia Hamparian Children’s Memorial. Since then there have been several “rooms” opened in the metaverse, including one where churches that were occupied and destroyed in Artsakh have their electronic footprint preserved here.

Gail Chalebian, Superintendent at St. James comments, “Our Sunday school is thrilled and honored to pilot and incorporate the first Epostle program into our curriculum.  Epostle allows our students to navigate through the many sites of Armenia and experience Armenian culture and history in a way that has never been done before.  And the opportunity to communicate directly with other Armenian students, teachers, and clergy all over the world, in real time, opens a whole new ‘metaverse’ to our community.”

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